grubstreet

[gruhb-street]

adjective

1. produced by a hack; poor in quality.

   a grubstreet book.

noun

1. Grub Street.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grubstreet¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

Momofuku’s David Chang and others followed suit until a New York restaurant’s success almost seemed to hinge on the din of its dining room, as "New York" magazine features writer Adam Platt noted in a 2013 Grubstreet piece.

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After graduating, he moved to Boston and became the program coordinator at GrubStreet, a popular writing center, where he started the still-active Boston Writers of Color group.

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José Chu, who worked as a manager at the 101st Street and Broadway location of Flor de Mayo, a well-known Chino-Latino restaurant credited with inventing the first nutcrackers, told GrubStreet in 2019 that he came up with the name for the drink after seeing a New York City Ballet ad.

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Her short fiction was published, in Best American Short Stories and elsewhere; she took charge of GrubStreet’s annual Muse and the Marketplace literary conference, and as a mixed-race Asian American, she marshaled the group’s diversity efforts.

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Unsure of what to do next, she worked day jobs in advertising in Boston while dabbling in workshops at the GrubStreet writing center.

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